KHA53: NOAA Weather Radio, Rochester
KHA53 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Rochester, with the transmitter at Fairport, New York, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Buffalo, NY programs it. It covers 10 counties.
The transmitter and its neighbors
KHA53 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.
- On the air
- Degraded
- Off the air
The transmitter
- Call sign
- KHA53
- Frequency
- 162.400 MHz (WX2)
- Power
- 500 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Rochester
- Transmitter site
- Fairport
- State
- New York
- NWS office
- Buffalo, NY
- Location
- 43.0361, -77.4233
Counties covered
Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cayuga | New York | 036011 | Whole county |
| Genesee | New York | 036037 | E 1/2 |
| Livingston | New York | 036051 | Whole county |
| Monroe | New York | 036055 | Whole county |
| Ontario | New York | 036069 | Whole county |
| Orleans | New York | 036073 | Whole county |
| Seneca | New York | 036099 | Whole county |
| Wayne | New York | 036117 | W 1/2 |
| Wyoming | New York | 036121 | E 1/2 |
| Yates | New York | 036123 | N 1/2 |
Nearby transmitters
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Sources
Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read October 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.